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List of Australian politicians (real/fake) and political parties using Twitter. It's a wiki so you can add to the list.

If you're using Twitter then you'll want to visit this page to see which Australian politicians (real and fake) and political parties are using Twitter. Most say little or tweet so irregularly that they get lost in the traffic.

Political lobby group GetUp! has shared insights into how email, social media and SMS were crucial to the success of its recent election campaign

The article outlines how the Liberal Party of Australia, through the Conservative Leadership Foundation, has established an online campaigning network. It outlines the purpose behind it.

Crabgrass is a software libre web application designed for social networking, group collaboration and network organizing. Our goal is to create communication tools that are tailored specifically to meet the needs of bottom up grassroots organizing.

A very good piece about the uses of mobile technologies for activism.

There are things in this that I've also been thinking about but hadn't picked up on using it for pointing to pickets. Although I've been thinking about it's use to identify popular meeting points as ways of identifying places for meetings or rally points; or favourite destinations to identify possible prizes for competitions to increase supporters' engagement in campaigns. Thoughts?

Describers 5 great tools for activists that have been created by other activists. They are pretty good tools and a few of them particularly speak to concerns about online identity and ensuring that friends are actually friends.

Movements.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying, connecting, and supporting grassroots digital activists from around the world.